Dear Michael, I would be happy to wait a few weeks for the Cygwin port to work and then give it a try. How would I know that the Cygwin port is working and how I should go about usung it? Thanks. Robert
On May 14, 3:21 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote: > On May 14, 3:15 pm, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > > Dear All, has anyone been able to succesfully install Sage 3.0.1 on a > > Windows XP using cygwin pc rather than using the VMware player? If so, > > could you please let me know how to go about doing this? Thank you. > > Support for building Sage on Cygwin was dropped around the Sage 2.5.x > release, so right now there is no official support any more. We are in > process of porting Sage using Microsoft Visual Studio compiler, i.e. > MSVC, but that will take probably at least until the end of the year. > I have build most of Sage with Cygwin, but there are a couple issues > that need to be fixed before it becomes usable again. Right now I am > concentrating on the 64 bit OSX port of Sage, but once that is done I > will get back to Cygwin/MSVC. As part of the MSVC port we will > resurrect the Cygwin port, so that will hopefully work again in a > couple weeks. > > Would you want to help out with the Cygwin port I can certainly point > you to some bugs and tell you how to fix them. Right now it just isn't > priority for me ;) > > > Robert > > Cheers, > > Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
